Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – Changing the item's size

Our custom graphics item always displays the graph for x values between 0 and 50. It would be neat to make this a configurable setting. Declare a private float m_maxX field in the SineItem class, remove the MAX_X constant, and replace its uses with m_maxX in the rest of the code. As always, you must set the initial value of the field in the constructor, or bad things can happen. Finally, implement a getter and a setter for it, as shown:

float SineItem::maxX()
{
    return m_maxX;
}

void SineItem::setMaxX(float value)
{
    if (m_maxX == value) {
        return;
    }
    prepareGeometryChange();
    m_maxX = value;
}

The only non-trivial part here is the prepareGeometryChange() call. This method is inherited from QGraphicsItem ...